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Never mind the geopolitics and hot air about Donald Trump’s latest deal, due to be signed at the United Nations next Tuesday. It will give a stimulant shot in the arm to a major healthcare share that...
When technology shares plunged on fears that “artificial intelligence (AI) will kill us all” this 150 year-old London-listed business saw its stock surge 8% higher on Monday and another 6% yesterday...
Easily the most important event for investors this week - and even, perhaps, the survival of humanity - will not occur in the Square Mile or New York or Tokyo. Instead, perhaps surprisingly, it will...
Renewed violence in the Middle East, including American claims to have destroyed five Iranian tankers, pushed the oil price to peak at $104 per barrel this week. That’s bad news for the global economy...
Nobody who was an adult on 9/11 will ever forget where we were on that tragic day when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York, causing the deaths of 2,977 innocent people. Nothing can...
Apple (stock market ticker: AAPL) will launch its first foldable iPhone tomorrow as incoming chief executive and former head of hardware engineering, John Ternus, heralds a new era of innovation. But...
Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, sounded cruel but shrewd when she targeted the key questions for state spending and stock market investors this week. What’s our priority? Welfare or warfare:...
Big is not always beautiful, and SpaceX was by far the largest stock market flotation ever, but this small DIY shareholder remains sceptical about anything that sounds like faith-based investment. It...
Food and fuel are the fundamental requirements to keep us warm and in work. So, if investors are looking for assets that will always be needed, despite an increasingly unpredictable world, it makes...
How will investors be affected by our new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, the former Mayor of Manchester? What opportunities and challenges will he create for shareholders?Probably Burnham’s most...
Half of humanity is said to include many individuals who consider this confectionary to be “better than sex”. Meanwhile, the rest of us are more likely to regard this sweet as an increasingly...
Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are human tragedies and economic disasters about which most individual investors can do precisely nothing...
Do investors get older and wiser or just wealthier? What do I know now that I wish I had known when younger? These are topical questions because I have just bought some shares for my baby...
Income-seeking investors can shoot to score 8% annual income from assets that are generally regarded as less risky than ordinary shares. Better still, some of these funds have increased their...
You can’t eat a ‘real return’ but rising income from disciplined dividend investment can pay for a pleasant retirement. This beats having your standard of living cut in half by inflation when you are...
